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Children are always very inventive and their imaginations know no boundaries especially when it comes to gardening.
As Joe Swift mentioned earlier, the Children's Quirky Container Competition was a great example of this. Schools across the Cheshire area have submitted an amazing range of interesting and unusual containers to be judged by visitors to the show. I had a look through and was really surprised by how good they were, from small scale exhibits like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, entered by Bexton Primary School, Knutsford to a large scale container made from a Piano. 
Created by Park Royal School, Macclesfield, this was entitled Keys to Health and Happiness! (get it!) It looked spectacular although I can't help wondering what the music teacher thought? There is one container that I know will particularly appeal to my colleague Louise. St Anne's Fulshaw, Church of England School created a chest shaped container overflowing with bright nasturtiums and other bedding plants, entitled
Ooh Arrgh Pirate's Treasure (She's from Cornwall you know). The RHS are very keen to encourage children to get into gardening and are actively campaigning for it to be added to the school curriculum, with young minds as inventive as this, it can only be a good thing. Also as part of the Tatton tenth anniversary celebrations Children under 15 get into the show free this year. Robert Nyman
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Small strawberry seeds on each berry. In garden centers you may find strawberry seeds - the very same also can be produced from any fresh strawberries. To grow plants from such tiny seeds is far more difficult than growing plants from strawberry runners. The seeds would be the choice to "import" strawberries from remote countries.
This photo concludes the small series about strawberries in the Philippine islands. Strawberries grow in a wide range of countries from Mediterranean climate to central or northern European climate as well as some mountain regions in India and US of course. Any cold subtropical climate to cold climate areas is suitable. The many different strawberry varieties may have their own preferences. Hence try different strawberry plants. Some bear fruits almost all year long, others have a short season of a few weeks only. The final criteria however always is the taste. Modern variety as so often are profit oriented. Thus modern strawberry varieties have large / huge fruits almost tasteless. Traditional strawberries are much smaller but delicious in taste. In Europe it is almost impossible to find any natural tasty strawberries left in commercial strawberry fields.
Here in the Philippine islands' Capital of strawberries - Trinidad - outside Baguio City, most of the strawberries still are of the natural tasty kind.
Hopefully by now you have a basic understanding of how much work is involved in the production of delicious strawberries - from your supermarket shelf. The field worker - mostly women - here in the Philippines earn anywhere between 3 to 5 US$ PER DAY for a long day of back aching work. A strawberry harvest season consumes hundreds of working hours for a small field and another many hundreds of working hours for field and plant care in the fields between harvest seasons.
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
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